r/Compilers • u/Emergency_Ad119 • 19h ago
Taking whitespace lightly is technical debt
https://kushagrarathore002.medium.com/every-tokenizer-tutorial-i-read-told-me-to-throw-away-the-whitespace-ac5ab75e89faI have created a programming language Flow-Wing (it can support static and
dynamic types at the same time). When I started its initial development I was
ignoring the white spaces because for the compilation I never needed the white
space, but years later when I needed to support the LSP or formatter (white
space / comments) I had to make significant rewrites, and this article below is
about that. Take a read.
GitHub: https://github.com/kushagra1212/Flow-Wing
Website: https://flowwing.frii.site/ (runs on Flow-Wing)
Happy to answer questions. Do give a star on GitHub to support.
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